September 28Birthdays & History

On this day: September 28 in history

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1. 48 BCPompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII.Middle East
2. 235Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus of Rome.Europe
3. 351Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.Europe
4. 365Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself emperor.EuropeMiddle East
5. 935Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia is murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother Boleslaus I, who succeeds him.Europe
6. 995Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia, kills most members of the rival Slavník dynasty.Europe
7. 1066William the Conqueror lands in England, beginning the Norman conquest.Europe
8. 1106King Henry I of England defeats his brother Robert Curthose at the Battle of Tinchebray.Europe
9. 1213Queen consort Gertrude of Merania is assassinated by a group of Hungarian lords.Europe
10. 1238King James I of Aragon conquers Valencia from the Moors. Shortly thereafter, he proclaims himself king of Valencia.Europe
11. 1322Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.Europe
12. 1538Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.Middle EastEurope
13. 1542Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California. He is the first European in California.EuropeNorth America
14. 1644A Hospitaller galley squadron defeats an Ottoman convoy in the action of 28 September 1644.Middle East
15. 1779American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.North America
16. 1781American Revolution: French and American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown.North AmericaEurope
17. 1787The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.North America
18. 1821The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is drafted. It will be made public on 13 October.Latin America
19. 1844Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.Europe
20. 1867Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.North America
21. 1868The Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.Europe
22. 1871The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.Latin America
23. 1889The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a metre.Europe
24. 1892The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.North America
25. 1901Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.AsiaNorth America
26. 1912The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.Europe
27. 1912Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.North America
28. 1918World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.Europe
29. 1919Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.North America
30. 1924The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.North America
31. 1928Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.Europe
32. 1939World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland.Europe
33. 1939World War II: The siege of Warsaw comes to an end.Europe
34. 1941World War II: The Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins.Europe
35. 1941Ted Williams achieves a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better.North America
36. 1944World War II: Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Estonia.Europe
37. 1951CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.North America
38. 1958Fernando Rios, a Mexican tour guide in New Orleans, dies of injuries sustained in an incident of gay bashing.Latin AmericaNorth America
39. 1961A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.Middle East
40. 1970Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.Middle East
41. 1973The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the coup d'état in Chile.North AmericaLatin America
42. 1975The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.Europe
43. 1983John Pat, a 16-year old Aboriginal Australian boy, dies of injuries sustained by four off-duty police officers in Roebourne, a catalyst to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.Oceania
44. 1986The Democratic Progressive Party becomes the first opposition party in Taiwan.Asia
45. 1992A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew.Asia
46. 1994The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.Europe
47. 1995Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.Middle East
48. 1995Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup.Africa
49. 2000Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.Middle East
50. 2006Typhoon Xangsane passes over Manila after impacting parts of Southern Luzon and Eastern Visayas, becoming the strongest to affect the Philippine capital in 11 years.Asia
51. 2008Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit by the RatSat mission.Oceania
52. 2008The Singapore Grand Prix is held as Formula One's inaugural night race, with Fernando Alonso winning the event. Almost a year later it was revealed that Alonso's team-mate Nelson Piquet Jr. had been ordered to crash his car to help bring out the safety car and give Alonso the advantage and win.Asia
53. 2009The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1,400 people.Africa
54. 2012Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.Africa
55. 2012Sita Air Flight 601 crashes in Madhyapur Thimi, Nepal, killing all 19 passengers and crew.Asia
56. 2014The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing.Asia
57. 2016The 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting up to three days in some areas.Oceania
58. 2018The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured.Asia
59. 2022Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Cayo Costa State Park, Florida as a category four hurricane, killing 169 and doing $113 billion in damage, becoming Florida's costliest hurricane and the deadliest in 89 years.North America
60. 2023The 2023 Rotterdam shootings occurred, during which two people were killed in a shooting and arson incident at a residence in Delfshaven, Rotterdam. Additionally, one person lost their life in a classroom at the Erasmus University Medical Center.Europe

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